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- theLEGENDisBACK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I dont have an AC in my house =(
This summer sucks - MrBabyMan, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18Yes, but by "Global Warming", they mean "Liberal Democrats".
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"I think the new spin is that yes, global warming MAY be real, but it is NOT caused by pollution. It's all just "natural" climate changes... that um... happen to be taking place within a 50 year span..."
we can blame all the hot air coming out of ted stevens' head for that... - tsuroki, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10This is obviously a ploy devised by liberal scaremongers. Global warming! What pish-posh. There is no way that an increase in unusual weather patterns and a drastic rise in temperature over recent years is in any way influenced by "global warming". I mean, really, who in their right mind would associate global warming with an increase in temperature?
- trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13WOAH! Fox News is actually considering Global Warming one of the causes?
- xelloss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Its cool and windy in California right now. Just glad its not 118 like it was the past few weeks.
- iggee85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@geekee
McDLT is saying that's the new spin, that's not what he actually believes. - seanalltogether, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Mahlman said: "The smoking gun is still smoking; it's not shooting people yet."
I dont think that guy understands the definition of a smoking gun. - renegadeafk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10we're *****
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I don't know what the hell is up with this heat...every year it seems to get hot for a few months then cools down...
- ezkiel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3no a/c here either with high humidity and 100+ degree days.
thank god for beer... cold refreshing beer. - iggee85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not just global warming but "man-made global warming."
- tsuroki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How can you know what the effects of global warming are if you openly claim that you don't know if it exists, and that there is "no way to know yet"? I always thought that something needed to exist before you can analyze its effects.
- rayana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3dude, i don't have a/c either, it's philly, it's been down to 92 in my apt the past couple of nights and hot as balls in here. yet here i am, steaming in front of my sizzling laptop, browsing digg. it overheats now and then. has anyone seen An Inconvenient Truth? goes into depth about global warming. biased, perhaps but i saw this other thing on pbs that corroborates this evidence. and apparently, global warming is also directly correlated with global dimming. so the earth's getting darker as well. so it's dark and hot in my apt.
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Too slow for the edit, but here's a little more for you to chew on, nreynolds:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
"An increase in global temperatures can in turn cause other changes, including a rising sea level and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation. These changes may increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and tornados."
"Only a small minority of climate scientists discount the role that humanity's actions have played in recent warming. However, the uncertainty is more significant regarding how much climate change should be expected in the future. . ."
It's very real, whether you chose to see it or not. Educate yourself, if you dare. - subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4We have no chance to survive make our time.
- chrisiwanowski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's An Inconvenient Truth.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_classics/aninconvenienttruth/trailer/ - psyduck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm not saying that this data is invalid, but it is getting pretty tiresome that every heat-wave we experience is due to global warming, sending the media into a frenzy, as if they have never happened before.
The sad thing is it is getting so over-exposed that people just aren't going to care about the real science before long. - Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2nreynolds wrote: "I'm not saying Global Warming doesn't exist (I'm thinking it) but even if it does, this has NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. Global warming is focussed on changes of less than .1 degree each year mostly in the arctic and antarctic. The fact that it's 5 degrees hotter this year than last year has nothing to do with it, if it exists (which it might, but we don't know, and don't try to tell me we do know because there's no way to know yet)."
You may not *choose* to know, but others are far less ignorant than you've made yourself. Why should anyone take you seriously when you presume to lecture the scientific majority about global warming?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
Paraphrasing a rather wise man: "Everyone is entitled to their own set of opinions, but not their own set of facts." - computermatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Blame Al Gore
- neozeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There is no warming! Its a hoax! This is nothing more than a conspiracy of thermometers!
Remember its always been this hot & the ice caps are about as real as santa claus! - datastorageguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Every summer is always hotter than the one before and every winter is always colder than the one before. Its just human nature.
- smedstadc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thats some quality sarcasm right there folks.
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2with all this global warming talk, i was expecting this summer to be hot... i live in phoenix, where breaking 120 during the summer is common.. not sure if it did this year... maybe we're headed toward a new ice age o.O
/i believe the GW people more than i believe the IA people.. - georgelogy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yea, it's been really nice in California after that nasty heat wave. Always nice to have below-normal temperatures.
- SanTe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"America in recent years has been sweltering through three times more than its normal share of extra-hot summer nights, government weather records show."
I can vouch that Seattle is definitely experiencing this. We used to never break 90 degrees except for 5-10 days (max) in August, and even then it didn't happen every year.
We just spent half of July above that mark, mimicking most summers going back to 1999. I've been longing for the El Nino summer of 1998, when it was positively beautiful here (mid-70s) for the entire summer. - icetigaurus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And they say man-made Global Warming doesn't exist?
They better be damn sure that they are right about GW not existing, because if they are wrong... these "heat-waves" will only become more frequent, longer, and even hotter. And not in the good way either. - proxybot767, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if it is caused by GLOBAL WARMING then why is some places having snow in South Africa http://allafrica.com/stories/200608030819.html and other places haveing normal temps this summer.
- dacyac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So, what is this report doing on Fox? I guess someone is going to get fired...
- KenMo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hahahahahahahaha!
My plan is coming together.
Warming up the planet was MY plan for world domination, and now it is too late for you fools to stop me.
And best of all, YOU did all of the work, driving your SUVs and using incandescent light bulbs.
Ah hahahahahahaha - SoxFanNH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yup sure is tiresome, people just need something to blame the weather on it seems... Gotta love how when we had a big time cold spell up in PA during the winter all the talk stops, but as soon as it gets hot (notice that its summer, hmm) people start all the whining again...
- dacyac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think that the cultural turning point on this debate happened a few years ago when Swizz RE, one of the insurance companies that insures insurance companies said, yes, the planet is getting warmer. Here is one link. It was covered by all the major press.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0303-07.htm
And a number of major corporations started changing their tunes.
Since then, the Bush administration's spin on the issue changed from the science isn't in yet, to it is happening but it isn't because of human behavior, to the lastest spin, that technology will save us. (Let's start pumping that CO2 into the ground next to that spent radioactive materials...)
Come on you neo-con brain dweebs, read you briefing papers so that you can get the message right. - SoxFanNH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Exactly right reyonlds people just try to blow ***** out of proportion all the time and I am so sick of it. Just another scientist who wants their name out there. You cannot attribute one or even a few summers of hot weather to global warming. When will people realize this!?!?
- SoxFanNH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ya an increase over many many years, so who do all these people try and attribute it to one specific event...
- BrainedChild, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I really don't think it's global warming. Someone explained to me that it might actually be the sun causing the wacky weather by itself. Something about 11 year long cycles and that the sun is currently not playing by the cycle norm. I'm not really sure what it's called or I'd give some sort of link.
But that makes much more sense to me. Global warming is supposed to be a gradual increase in temperature, whereas the current warming nightmare started this past winter. For all we know it might end by November. - Mabuse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh, but only "some" scientists consider this a sign of global warning - I wonder if this phrasing is a Fox News edit or actually from the original AP story.
- JonForTheWin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It was 119 in the shade a couple weeks ago.
It was 102 at 8:45 after the sun went down.
This was in LA.
***** weird. - Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1July hottest month in Netherlands in 300 years
Amsterdam, July 25: July 2006 is on track to be the hottest month in the Netherlands since temperatures were first measured in 1706, the Dutch meteorological institute KNMI said on Tuesday.
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=311669&ssid=26&sid=ENV
UK News: The Hottest July In History
This month has been the hottest July since records began nearly 350 years ago, it was confirmed today.
http://www.newswatch.co.uk/headlines.asp?ref=LJ3127640D
USA: July 2006: Hottest on Record?
It's official: July 2006 was one of the warmest months on record for the lower 48 U.S. states, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/08/01/heatwave_pla.html?category=travel&guid=20060801133030
Poland has experienced its hottest July since official records began 227 years ago, with average mid-afternoon temperatures hitting 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), the Meteorological Institute in Warsaw said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060802/sc_afp/polandweatherheatwave - vikingcoder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Global warming" refers to an increase in the global average temperature. It is not an uniform increase as the weather patterns adjust due to the added energy in the system.
- geekee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@McDLT
FTA
"Some scientists say the trend is a sign of man-made global warming.
A top federal research meteorologist said he "almost fell out of my chair" when he looked over U.S. night minimum temperature records over the past 96 years and saw the skyrocketing trend of hot summer nights."
RTFA McDLT - nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I'm not saying Global Warming doesn't exist (I'm thinking it) but even if it does, this has NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. Global warming is focussed on changes of less than .1 degree each year mostly in the arctic and antarctic. The fact that it's 5 degrees hotter this year than last year has nothing to do with it, if it exists (which it might, but we don't know, and don't try to tell me we do know because there's no way to know yet).
- dirtkahuna, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0In central Michigan, the temperature reached 102 Wednesday. Massive electrical storms rolled through at 10 pm, shutting off power (and A/C to those that have it). The temp. in my house was pushing 90, so I crept out to my porch and slept on a futon.
This trend of "hot nights" is certainly becoming more noticeable. I saw "An Inconvenient Truth," and I believe that much of our current global warming is caused by excessive C02 emissions.
Those that call this a "liberal conspiracy" are only buying into what the extreme right wants - and that is to "politicize" science. - KenMo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Yes yes yes
Fox is evil. ho hum
boy these comments are original
oh and people are stupid for not believing Al Snore.
Wow it is as fun to read these comments as when you are debating abortion.
Global warming is our fault.
No it's not, its natural
Yes it is.
So there - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Don't y ou mean global warming is HOT HOT HOT.
- HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0You guys can't take a little heat? lol
Hot Summer Nights also means 3 straight days of car shows and cruises, furthering the fun at the expensive of the enviroment. Woohoo! Can't wait. - Aggaman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1You took the words right out of my mouth....
- friend18, on 10/12/2007, -15/+6Global Warming is hot. LOL
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